In-Person Workshop: Getting the Most Out of Your Professional Development

VET tailored session, enabling participants to identify their own learning needs in a facilitated learning environment to obtain support for professional development and planning self-paced PD to improve teaching, learning and assessment.

Description

The Victorian Skills Authority (VSA) provides funding to the VET Development Centre (VDC) to deliver workforce development training to improve the knowledge, skills and practice of VET teachers, trainers and assessors, and strengthen the learning environment, experience and outcomes for all VET learners.  

This workshop will explore how as a practitioner you plan, engage in, and evaluate your professional learning to improve your practice.

Objectives: 

Plan your PD to improve teaching, learning and assessment.

Learning Outcomes:

This workshop enables participants to Identify their own learning needs and obtain support for professional development and plan self-paced PD to improve teaching, learning and assessment.

These are specific professional learning programs for the Victorian Government funded vocational education sector in priority areas, as a response to the Government’s commitment to quality training outcomes. 

Audience

This workshop is designed for Skills First teachers (trainers and assessors) with a 2024-25 VET Funding Contract and is aligned to the following domains and related capabilities/learning outcomes as prescribed in the VET Practitioner Capability Framework (IBSA 2013: Teaching | Assessment | Industry, Community & Collaboration

Level - Introductory (New to the topic): These sessions are aimed at practitioners that have a broad theoretical knowledge and practical experience of training and assessment.

 

Session includes

  • In-Person Workshop Includes: Certificate of Attendance, Digital badge, Workbook & Morning Tea 

Venue

  • In-person workshop will be held at the VET Development Centre located at Level 8, 379 Collins Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000.

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